Moisés Hassan | |
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National Autonomous University of Nicaragua North Carolina State University |
Moisés Hassan Morales (born May 4, 1942) [1] is a Nicaraguan politician. He was one of five members of the Junta of National Reconstruction that ruled the country from 1979 to 1984, following the fall of the Somozas regime. [2]
Born in Managua on May 4, 1942, to Nicaraguan mother and Palestinian father from Gaza, [2] [1] Hassan studied engineering at the National Autonomous University of Nicaragua (UNAN). [3] In 1968 he earned a PhD in physics from North Carolina State University in Raleigh, North Carolina. [4]
Hassan was a long-time dissident and early FSLN member. He attended his first protest against the Somoza dictatorship in 1958 and was jailed several times for his continued dissidence. [5] He joined the FSLN in its infancy in the 1960s and was a key figure in the organization by the time the uprising came to a head in the late '70s, having built a network of subversives in Managua’s slums. [5]
He was the dean of the UNAN's College of Science and Letters until he joined the anti-Somozas effort in 1978. [2] He was head of the activist National Association of Professors and became its delegate to the United People's Movement, a coalition of civic groups supporting the Sandinistas, which he founded in 1978. [2] [5]
He led the September 1978 uprising against the regime. [5]
In 1979, he joined the five-member Junta of National Reconstruction (RN), alongside fellow Sandinistas, intellectual Sergio Ramírez and commander Daniel Ortega, as well as Violeta Chamorro, widow of La Prensa publisher Pedro Joaquín Chamorro Cardenal; and prominent businessman Alfonso Robelo. Hassan left the RN in March 1981. [1]
Hassan served as Minister of Construction until he became Vice-Minister of the Interior in May 1983. [1] From 1984 to 1988, he was Mayor of Managua. [4] His technical skills made him valuable in that capacity, dealing with persistent flooding in the capital. [5]
Hassan split with the FSLN in 1988. [6] He was removed from his post as Mayor for failure to follow orders from the nine-member FSLN National Directorate, at times at odds with ideological hardline members Tomás Borge and Bayardo Arce. [5] Hassan resigned the party shortly thereafter. [5]
On December 16, 2009, he published La maldición de Güegüense. [7]
His papers are held at the Hoover Institution Library and Archives at Stanford University, acquired in 2002. [4]
Moisés Hassan | |
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Born | |
Alma mater |
National Autonomous University of Nicaragua North Carolina State University |
Moisés Hassan Morales (born May 4, 1942) [1] is a Nicaraguan politician. He was one of five members of the Junta of National Reconstruction that ruled the country from 1979 to 1984, following the fall of the Somozas regime. [2]
Born in Managua on May 4, 1942, to Nicaraguan mother and Palestinian father from Gaza, [2] [1] Hassan studied engineering at the National Autonomous University of Nicaragua (UNAN). [3] In 1968 he earned a PhD in physics from North Carolina State University in Raleigh, North Carolina. [4]
Hassan was a long-time dissident and early FSLN member. He attended his first protest against the Somoza dictatorship in 1958 and was jailed several times for his continued dissidence. [5] He joined the FSLN in its infancy in the 1960s and was a key figure in the organization by the time the uprising came to a head in the late '70s, having built a network of subversives in Managua’s slums. [5]
He was the dean of the UNAN's College of Science and Letters until he joined the anti-Somozas effort in 1978. [2] He was head of the activist National Association of Professors and became its delegate to the United People's Movement, a coalition of civic groups supporting the Sandinistas, which he founded in 1978. [2] [5]
He led the September 1978 uprising against the regime. [5]
In 1979, he joined the five-member Junta of National Reconstruction (RN), alongside fellow Sandinistas, intellectual Sergio Ramírez and commander Daniel Ortega, as well as Violeta Chamorro, widow of La Prensa publisher Pedro Joaquín Chamorro Cardenal; and prominent businessman Alfonso Robelo. Hassan left the RN in March 1981. [1]
Hassan served as Minister of Construction until he became Vice-Minister of the Interior in May 1983. [1] From 1984 to 1988, he was Mayor of Managua. [4] His technical skills made him valuable in that capacity, dealing with persistent flooding in the capital. [5]
Hassan split with the FSLN in 1988. [6] He was removed from his post as Mayor for failure to follow orders from the nine-member FSLN National Directorate, at times at odds with ideological hardline members Tomás Borge and Bayardo Arce. [5] Hassan resigned the party shortly thereafter. [5]
On December 16, 2009, he published La maldición de Güegüense. [7]
His papers are held at the Hoover Institution Library and Archives at Stanford University, acquired in 2002. [4]